General Mayhem

[Meegle]

http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSN1031258120070910


10 million by 2008...thats quite a large order

[Dracus]

damn i was just about to post this.  that's an insane amount of iphones.

[Lautakwah]

wait till its 99 bux or free with 2 year contract....ya know another 3 months from now...bastards. 

[Udog]

well, if you bought the 599 version, you do get a 100 buck rebate and a 100 buck gift card for the apple store or something...

[Meegle]

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Lautakwah wrote:
wait till its 99 bux or free with 2 year contract....ya know another 3 months from now...bastards. 

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i'm thinking along the same lines, but not that bad. I think in november/december or june (1 year from first launch) they will release the 12 or 16 gig version. The 8 will stay at $399, maybe go to $350 and the 16 will sell for $599.

I'm going to buy one, and i want to get one in the next few weeks so i can actually get some use out of the 8gb, and not feel like i'm getting jacked.


edit: Here's a link to the 16gb iphone, there are several sites swirling this rumor...but we'll see 

http://www.iphonematters.com/article/will_you_upgrade_for_a_16gb_3g_iphone_032/

Message Edited by Meegle on 09-10-2007 11:15 AM

[Meegle]

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Udog wrote:
well, if you bought the 599 version, you do get a 100 buck rebate and a 100 buck gift card for the apple store or something...

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you only get $100 back, not 100 rebate and 100 gift card.

[onions]

you can probably upgrade the drive on the 8gb to 16gb provided that you can open the device without damaging it and also secure a 16gb flash drive. 3g support will probably be enabled through firmware on older models. i can't see apple denying original owners 3g support.

[Lautakwah]

399 bux isn't gonna cut it if they want to hit that 10 million phones by 2008 or whatever.  its pretty much guaranteed the iphone will hit 99 bux or free sooner than later because thats just how the american cell phone market works and its going to get tougher to sell once nokia and the like release their version of the iphone. 

[Kem]

I think the V1 version is missing a lot of the features a stand phone has too... They'll prob rev it to V2 after the holiday season.

[onions]

aim msn yahoo messenger. once those are on the iphone, only then i would consider switching.

[wizll]

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Meegle wrote:

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Udog wrote:
well, if you bought the 599 version, you do get a 100 buck rebate and a 100 buck gift card for the apple store or something...

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you only get $100 back, not 100 rebate and 100 gift card.

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$100 gift card to apple...

[pansy]

in semi-related news, what's with the new ipod touch coming in 16gb max?  that's pretty weak for something apple that finally has widescreen video.  all your mp3s plus a few movies and tv eps, and you're full!

[onions]

16gb is the current ceiling for mass production commercially available flash drives.

[Meegle]

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onions wrote:
aim msn yahoo messenger. once those are on the iphone, only then i would consider switching.

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there are several 3rd party applications that provide these. Just becuase apple didn't put it on the phone doesn't mean it won't be on there.

I also found a website that does free txt's. http://www.iphonesource.org/2007/08/06/txtdrop/